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Poland to amend controversial Holocaust law

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The amendment is designed to remove fines or criminal penalties for anyone found guilty of ascribing Nazi crimes to the Polish state
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Germany’s Nazi hunters in final straight of race against time

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For decades after the war, the German government showed little haste to track down many of those involved in the organised mass murder
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The intolerable loss of dignity

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Obliterating being human is beyond our comprehension and so we invoke evil and dignity – but the wound is indelible
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Poland’s president signs controversial Holocaust bill into law

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The law sets fines or a maximum three-year jail term for anyone who describes Nazi German death camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau as being Polish
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‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’, 96, fit to serve jail term: German court

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Oskar Gröning was found guilty in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murders of 300 000 people at the Nazi death camp.
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Letters to the editor: May 29 to June 5 2015

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Readers write in about contraceptives, Holocaust education and the danger of essentialising.
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‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ goes on trial in Germany

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Former Nazi officer dubbed the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" went on trial in Germany, with almost 70 Holocaust survivors relatives at the court.
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The living march, lest we forget

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After escaping the Nazis in Poland, it took Irene Klass 70 years to return to the ghetto and her home. This is her story.
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Remembering Auschwitz 70 years on

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Survivors return to Auschwitz on the 70th anniversary after victims were set free as leaders sound alarm.
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Dutch Nazi fugitive dies at 90

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Nazi war criminal, Klaas Carel Faber, who escaped from a Dutch jail and lived as a fugitive in Germany for 60 years has died at the age of 90.
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Netanyahu’s war talk ups the ante in Iranian standoff

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An uncompromising speech in the US by Israel's prime minister has persuaded the public back home that war with Iran is possible, perhaps even likely.
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Musical ‘masterpiece’ captures horror of Auschwitz

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Opera composed by a Polish Jew and based on a survivor's novel makes its British debut.
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In the name of the mother: Ashes go to Treblinka

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A Polish expatriate's last wish is to be buried at the site of her Jewish family's death place: A death camp called Treblinka.
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Israel outraged over Auschwitz theft

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Israel on Friday condemned as a "declaration of war" the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland.
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